HaaaaaaPPEEEEEEEE....

[eregyrn]

... Happy birthday, _minxy_!!! Hope it was filled with wonderful things!

and

... Happy birthday to CANADA!


...Which I now appreciate ever so much more after (this week) finishing my TOME OF CANADIAN HISTORY, so that now I know stuff like what Confederation actually *is* and when it actually *happened* and all. Also? I can now name about 3 times as many prime ministers of Canada as I could before. Although now that I think about it... before, I could have named Trudeau, Chretien, and Harper (but I think Harper probably doesn't count, in the sense that he's such recent news that if I couldn't remember him I'd need to have my head examined), and I'm afraid that I don't think I could name 9 now. Hmm.... While I had heard of Lester Pearson, I was not actually aware that he had been PM, per se. And I started watching "due South" only *after* starting the TOME, so no, I wasn't precisely aware that Diefenbaker had been PM, before, either. So!

I personally celebrated by hitting REFRESH eight skillion times on the Canucks board I'm on, while watching the first day of free agency in the NHL 'splode all over the place. (Summary: Jovo signed with the COYOTES? WTF? and Yay! Mitchell!)

To top it off, I think I shall watch some "due South". Yes, that will do nicely.

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Oh -- and Anson Carter almost certainly won't be back, either. He's parlaying his great recovery year with the twins into a probable higher salary figure than the Canucks can afford. The latest scoop is that the Flyers have made him an offer.

So... right now, the Canucks need a RW to replace Bert; likely a RW to replace Carter; and ideally, another solid dman (they signed Willie Mitchell yesterday, which is widely being regarded as a good move). They may be able to deal Cloutier to make a little cap-space. I don't know if they will think of dealing Mo in order to do the same thing (and, what?, promote Kesler to top-line center? Otherwise, they would need to acquire another top-line center as well).

Exciting times! I'm sad to see various guys go, and I'm really going to miss Bert and Jovo. But I'm glad enough of the familiar guys are left for me to cling to.

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I had of course heard of Pearson due to the whole Lester B. Pearson trophy in the NHL. :) But I wasn't quite sure what Pearson was being commemorated *for*.

I was a little surprised when I finally read up on the history of Diefenbaker's run as PM to find out that he was such a conservative and so relatively unpopular. It made the idea of Fraser naming Dief after him seem a little odd to me... Not that Fraser's politics are that easy to discern, I guess, but I sort of perceive dS as more of a liberal show than a conservative show, if you see what I mean. It strikes me as if MacGyver had named some dog of his "Eisenhower" -- just a little "off". But maybe the show wasn't really thinking about that, and it has to be said that of the 20th century run of Canadian PMs, "Diefenbaker" is the most awesome name.